Okay, these ghost rules suck. Spoilers, I guess.
Rules of being a ghost, apparently.
You can't touch anything. Unless it's the floor. Oh, or a raft apparently. Because not only can you stand on a raft, but you can also grab onto it for leverage. And hey, did you know ghosts can swim? Yep, they apparently have substance when it comes to propelling themselves through water.
Ghosts can't go through doors, apparently. What? He can't turn the knob...SO?! He's a GHOST. The door shouldn't block his way! How the hell was LeChuck such a formidable enemy if all you had to do to keep him out was apparently stay in a room with a closed door? He can go through swinging fists, a column in Club 41, and a treasure chest, but Pirate God forbid he slip through a DOOR.
You'd think being a Ghost Pirate would be cool, but LeChuck apparently makes it look far simpler than it actually is.
EDIT: Apparently this conversation pops up in another thread as I'm posting this, which seems like an incredible coincidence and like I'm ripping somebody off, but I totally didn't.
You can't touch anything. Unless it's the floor. Oh, or a raft apparently. Because not only can you stand on a raft, but you can also grab onto it for leverage. And hey, did you know ghosts can swim? Yep, they apparently have substance when it comes to propelling themselves through water.
Ghosts can't go through doors, apparently. What? He can't turn the knob...SO?! He's a GHOST. The door shouldn't block his way! How the hell was LeChuck such a formidable enemy if all you had to do to keep him out was apparently stay in a room with a closed door? He can go through swinging fists, a column in Club 41, and a treasure chest, but Pirate God forbid he slip through a DOOR.
You'd think being a Ghost Pirate would be cool, but LeChuck apparently makes it look far simpler than it actually is.
EDIT: Apparently this conversation pops up in another thread as I'm posting this, which seems like an incredible coincidence and like I'm ripping somebody off, but I totally didn't.
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That really bugged me. If they were so intent on keeping us in the club, they could have just had the door blocked by the portal.
I guess then we'd be asking how they got to the jail, but that would be a less annoying question.
Both those things really irritated me. Especially the doorknob to the club actually. I may have shouted at the game... When it came to being able to swim upwards, I was merely rolling my eyes.
I think most of the things we see him being unable to do despite being a ghost is because he just doesn't have the ghostly 'experience', he's new at it and LeChuck probably had a similar experience at first too. Given time and he would have been flying through the air and punching people through the sky too.
Maybe he's doing it without thinking? Or maybe he has to be really angry with things in order to be able to touch them, and he has serious issues with Winslow's raft (they have a history or somesuch)...:D
ssshhh...
mkay...
its a game...
play by the rules...
(but okay, they bugged me at the end of the day too, but not enough to make me wanna rant)
Guybrush isn't accustomed to "ghost physics", and he's still behaving according to the limitations of a solid corporeal form. He used to move through water by swimming, so that's what he does as a ghost. He doesn't actually grasp the raft, but he thinks he needs to, so that's the motion he performs.
Maybe he can fly around and make himself solid or insubstantial at will (was this in a movie? Ghost, perhaps?), but he hasn't figured it out yet.
Well, that's my stab at fabricating an explanation.
Shut down the forums! Now! The prophet punkmario has made the realization that renders this place moot and worthless! Tear it down, tear it down now! Put that cookie down!
It may have bothered you just as much as it bothered me. It takes a good deal less to get me to rant than most people, I enjoy a good rant.
And it's not a particularly bad one, though I think the easier and more accurate assumption is that Telltale was really lazy about their animations, explanations of ghost physics, and explanations of why you can't go see the rest of Flotsam(It's not safe out there! LeChuck could get you!", followed in less than a minute by LeChuck dropping in to say hello).
*Tears his hair out, rips his clothes and sobs in the street*
My god, it's just a game? Why didn't anyone tell me!!!
and furthermore HAN SOLO FIRED FIRST!
Damn right he did and it totally fit his character.
I REALLY love this idea! Haha!
As for the door Guybrush easily could have walked right through. That falls straight to Guybrush having a "brain fart" and not going, "DUH! I'm a ghost now!"
However I think for example the raft and such were examples where although it wasn't strictly necessary, Guybrush performed the motion because he expected to have to. I believe that this may have been an example of a time where he (at least partially) was capable of manipulating the physical, but more because he wasn't strictly trying to than anything. Turning the doorknob is a direct attempt at manipulation; pulling himself up was much more indirect IMO.
Maybe I'm just being too lenient or forgiving, but I think it's not completely implausible.
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